wrote<\/a>\u00a0that his thinking \u201cwas fastened to a reformist framework.\u201d He admitted that he \u201cmissed the larger picture.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe focus on individual punishment will never alter the outcome of a system rooted in Black death. I wanted change. I wanted it to stop. I wanted to reform what I saw. Yet, the reforms often proposed \u2014 use-of-force policies, body cameras, more training, and police accountability \u2014 were the same recycled police reforms consistently proposed in the past. And in both the past and the present, these reforms have done nothing to stop the actions that force us to #SayTheirNames,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
In the essay,\u00a0Kaepernick called for abolishing the police and prisons. The article was written on Medium as part of his Kaepernick Publishing series.<\/p>\n
Kaepernick tackled prisons, incarceration\u00a0and policing in his first essay and completely dismissing any calls for police reform to head right for the abolition of law enforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite the steady cascade of anti-Black violence across this country, I am hopeful we can build a future that imagines justice differently. A future without the terror of policing and prisons. A future that prioritizes harm reduction, redemption, and public well-being in order to create a more just and humane world,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Kaepernick wrote\u00a0police officers performed acts of terror when they shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice and 92-year-old Kathryn Johnson. He alleged the idea of anti-Blackness has always been engrained in and is central to law enforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ever-present threat of premature death at the hands, knees, chokeholds, tasers, and guns of law enforcement has only further engrained its anti-Black foundation into the institutions of policing. In order to eradicate anti-Blackness, we must also abolish the police. The abolition of one without the other is impossible,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Lastly, Kaepernick argued for the abolition of the police. He wrote that in doing so, it would give people a safer, healthier\u00a0and freer future.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy abolishing policing and prisons, not only can we eliminate white supremacist establishments, but we can create space for budgets to be reinvested directly into communities to address mental health needs, homelessness and houselessness, access to education, and job creation as well as community-based methods of accountability,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Ryan Gaydos is a sports reporter for FoxNews.com<\/span><\/p>\n___
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